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From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How can I remain calm?
Message-ID: <954@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 89 17:44:51 GMT
References: <1989Oct11.211031.10051@ee.rochester.edu> <1989Oct13.125402.17356@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <70024@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <70024@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
>In article <1989Oct13.125402.17356@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>, coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:
>> Our sys file is around 4K. I've got the sys files of several of my
>> connections on file, and the smallest was 3k, with the largest at 14K.
>
>uunet's sys file:
> 176 -rw-rw-r--  1 news       166812 Oct 13 09:40 /usr/spool/news-lib/sys
>
>This is probably the largest -:).  We are feeding 404 sites & counting.
>

Speaking of the sendsys control message, and the version control message that
came a bit afterwards, the response is mailed to the news path in the article
by the version of news running here.  Since, as we all know, the connectivity
of the news path is not necessarily e-mail connectivity, a bounce is likely.
I reckon I'll either set up our mailer for ERR (Extremely Rabid Rerouting),
or go and fix news to respond somewhere other than the news path for sendsys
and version.  Maybe to the Reply-To: address? Maybe I should already have done
this? :-)

How about some comment from the sites just upstream of moocow on increase
in load? Same for major sites fed by uunet?
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Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA  92069
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